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I rewrote some parts for scalability in the first couple years after the acquisition, and a lot was changed after I left. But I believe a lot of it is still the
by tlb 13y ago
I rewrote some parts for scalability in the first couple years after the acquisition, and a lot was changed after I left. But I believe a lot of it is still there 15 years later. Perhaps a current maintainer could elaborate?
Many codebases end up pretty different after 15 years. It doesn't mean the original codebase wasn't a useful starting point. It's lower risk to adapt and improve based on customer feedback than figure out, "what should a build-your-own e-commerce tool do?" in the first place.
- stonemetal 13y agoThanks for that, the little I had read about it gave me a much different impression of a complete rewrite to move away from lisp.
- orangethirty 13y agoWhat language was your re-write done in?
- tlb 13y agoAgain, there was no complete re-write. It remained a mix of Lisp, Perl5 and C++.
- orangethirty 13y agoCool, thanks for answering. I wonder how many languages Yahoo currently uses. Given how many acquisitions they have done over the years.
- chopsueyar 13y agoWho devised RTML?
- tlb 13y agopg.